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by mindslight 3mo ago
Sure, that is what is written down. But as a necessary part of its operation, there is a whole lot of executive power being exercised as well, which the unitary executive theory says would fall under the authority of the president.
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by mindslight 3mo ago
> To you, that's expanding the scope No, I'm not talking about my own life, but rather the scope of the original response - making it out as something simple you can just do, rather than an undertaking in both prep time and r
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by mindslight 3mo ago
What we consider an the branches are defined in the Constitution, but my point is they are not simply defined as the top-level in a hierarchy of organizations, but rather behaviorally based on what function is being performed.
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by mindslight 3mo ago
You've just blindly asserted a whole bunch of things without laying out any sort of supporting arguments. What exactly makes the GAO not "part of the executive branch" ? My understanding is that "branches" are merel
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by mindslight 3mo ago
> But with those ingredients costing $20-25 you would be able to afford to make how many burritos? It doesn't matter. The post I was responding to said that you could create a substitute for a burrito shop burrito with $4 and some
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by mindslight 3mo ago
"cook almost every meal" is exactly the type of "expanding the scope" I was talking about. Cooking food yourself is a well-known way of saving money. Starting by trying to reproduce burrito shop burritos is not the way t
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by mindslight 3mo ago
> GAO is a Congressional agency, it does not fall under the Executive I don't know that it's accurate to say such things any more, due to the unitary executive decree by the supreme council. The GAO is intrinsically motivated
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by mindslight 3mo ago
You're talking about meals that take 2 prepped ingredients (pork/veggies, pork/ramen, cereal/milk) versus something that takes on the order of 10 (tortilla, rice, beans, some kind of protein, cheese, pico, lettuce, guac,
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by mindslight 3mo ago
The funny part is that I'm currently at the home-centric cook-for-multiple-people end of the spectrum. But burritos are just such a comically bad example of things to make at home to save money. Switch to pasta or basic sandwiches and
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by mindslight 3mo ago
You're expanding the scope to a much larger process and pattern of behavior that has to be undertaken and managed. Sure it's doable, and you can save a bunch of money that way. But as a one line throwaway comment it's still n
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by mindslight 3mo ago
This is what you said: " Make your burrito or bowl at home, and it'll cost $4 or less " That statement implies you can straightforwardly save by substituting that one meal with a made at home meal. The reality is much more co
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by mindslight 3mo ago
Do you enjoy eating just rice wrapped in a tortilla or something? Burritos are a harsh illustration of the economy of scale. Doing a quick tally with sale prices, and I'd think buying all the ingredients to make one single burrito woul
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by mindslight 3mo ago
This framing is directly at odds with the top-level comment. "the whole business is rotten." If someone is a professional programmer and wants to maintain a similar level of income, where do you propose they go? There are simila
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by mindslight 3mo ago
Note I said centrist libertarian. I think the Libertarian party, along with much of "libertarian" thought, has been captured by rightist fundamentalism - effectively turning it into crypto-fascism. But I continue to consider mys
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by mindslight 3mo ago
I'd say you're making a different framework. In the dual state framework, your privileged state/caste is just an aspect of the prerogative state. The dual state framework doesn't declare "which way" the illegal
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by mindslight 3mo ago
It's a cope, and it follows the dynamic reactionary talk radio has been using for decades - get people riled up about the system in general, cool them off just enough to go vote Republican, and then leverage their having made that choi
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by mindslight 3mo ago
> The hard way was tariffs, you know that. No, this was shortly after the US military had attacked Venezuela. It's reasonable to take this as a threat to use the military. > Funny that these professional journalists didn’t thi
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by mindslight 3mo ago
I share your cynicism based on my own experiences, but I think the technical answer to your question includes: 1. We don't know how many people had similar conditions that simply went untreated. 2. If you somehow manage to pique a doct
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by mindslight 3mo ago
Because, as I said, it is an implicit threat. Especially with the context of everything else he said. For example: As quoted by The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/donald-trump
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by mindslight 3mo ago
The problem is that you're butting up against the highly profitable cult of ignorance. For instance if something isn't intended to actually treat a disease, then it's basically exempt from FDA regulation as it's a "
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by mindslight 3mo ago
> Providing reading material is not a sufficient substitute for regulation in a country like the USA where 54% of adults read below a sixth-grade level This is obvious, but thank you for putting it so succinctly. One has to wonder how
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by mindslight 3mo ago
This is exactly the kind of sophistry I addressed in the postscript to my first comment: > preemptively, I don't want to hear some rationalization how declining to repudiate something is technically different than endorsing it. A s
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by mindslight 3mo ago
There is definitely beauty in having a separate router device that chugs on just fine regardless what happens to the rest of your network. But I got bored with the constantly-churning embedded culture, bespoke OS's (sorry, OpenWRT), an
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by mindslight 3mo ago
Well it's just the evidence you yourself brought. If you're looking to get to the truth of the matter, it's odd to reject the possibility of something that is directly referenced in what you're quoting, no? That is why I
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by mindslight 3mo ago
I don't think this quite captures it. The "Dual State" concept seems much more on point. https://www.thefunsinthefight.com/p/welcome-to-the-dual-stat...
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by mindslight 3mo ago
That's why I said "diminish greatly" rather than solve - by doing something basically everybody should be able to agree on regardless if you think a given product should be on the market or not. They should probably have to s
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by mindslight 3mo ago
The more general deeply-entrenched golden goose here is branding , which applies to much more than OTC medicines. Make it so the active ingredients have to be listed prominently - the largest text on the front of the product package - and
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by mindslight 3mo ago
The way I see it is that reactionary media ecosystem made an industry out of hating the United States (for all the ways it failed to live up to conservative values), motivated by corporate entrenched interests wanting to hamstring the gover
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by mindslight 3mo ago
From the very quote you pasted: >> It was a stark shift in tone for Trump, who just days earlier had declined to rule out using the military to secure ownership of Greenland So the problem seems to be your reading comprehension. It
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by mindslight 3mo ago
Are you saying that the "effective altruists" are responsible for the cabal of bigtech+reactionary elites salivating at the power of pervasive surveillance + machine intelligence ? While the former certainly supplement the fervor

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